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About Me:  

These Days:
I am currently enrolled in the production track at FIEA, a master's program offered by UCF in Orlando, Florida. Florida Interactive Entertainment Acadamy (FIEA) trains students to develop games in cross-disciplinary teams using industry-standard technology and procedures. We are put in a simulation of a video game company, and expected to produce quality content while learning and improving our skills. This experience culminates into a two-semester long capstone project where the goal is to develop a game that will be distributed to the public.

For more information, my résumé can be found here: [Armstrong2010Resume.pdf]

If you'd like to learn more about me, or just want to say what's up, feel free to shoot me an email: the.skippy@gmail.com

 

Background:
My real name is Greg Armstrong, but everybody calls me Skippy. I have aspired to work in the video game industry for as long as I can remember.

In middle school, I began coding turn-based strategy games on my TI-82 calculator. Then, in high school I got real programming experience under my belt when i learned the basics of Visual Basic and C++. I also began to explore 2D image editing software such as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator in my last two years of high school.

In my undergraduate studies at George Mason University I was introduced to Autodesk Maya. Starting my Junior year I was working in Maya almost exclusively to do my projects and assignments. As part of my minor in information technology I gained experience with Java and ActionScript. For my senior project I built my first level using an industry-standard game engine: UT3

Also, in case you’re wondering, in the picture above, I'm the one in the sunglasses...

Education:

 
2009 - Present
Orlando, FL

Master's Degree of Science in Interactive Entertainment
Video Game Production track
@ University of Central Florida - Florida Interactive Entertainment Acadamy (FIEA)

2004 - 2008
Fairfax, VA
Bachelor's Degree of Art and Visual Technology
Minor in Information Technology
@ George Mason Universtity

2000 - 2004
Woodbridge, VA

IT-Program High School Diploma
@ Forest Park Senior High School

   
Skill Set:  
Software Knowlage Microsoft Office Suite: (MS Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point)
Adobe CS Suite: (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Dreamweaver, Premire, Flash, Soundbooth)
Autodesk Maya
Perforce Source Control
   

Game Engine
Expirence

Unreal 3:Expirence using both Unreal Tournament 3 Editor and The Unreal Developer's Kit
Gamebryo: Expirence using the Gamebryo engine in conjunction with in-house tools
Unity 3D
   
Scripting Skills Java Basic  
Python HTML  
Lua PHP  
ActionScript C++